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vamoose, v. colloq. (orig. and chiefly U.S.).|vəˈmuːs|
Also vamos(e), vamous, vamoos, varmoose.
[ad. Sp. vamos let us go.]
1. intr. To depart, make off, decamp, disappear.
α [1827W. Clarke Every Night Bk. 30 They have done more foolish things in their day—but vamos.] 1834Knickerbocker IV. 455 Be off, you good-for-nothing rascals—vamos! 1848in Bartlett Dict. Amer., Its occupants..forthwith vamosed with their baggage. 1855Haliburton Nat. & Hum. Nat. I. 112, I makes a spring in after him, and caught him by the hair of the head, just as he was vamosing. 1893McCarthy Red Diamonds I. 173 The fifth name was that of Ratt Gundy, opposite to which Seth Chickering had written the one word: ‘Vamosed’.
β1859Slang Dict. 114 Vamous, to go, or be off. 1862Illustr. Lond. News 24 May 540/3 Guess, they'd better varmoose. 1874M. Collins Frances III. 80 If I can get money down for some of my gold bonds, we'll vamoos at once. 1892Stevenson & Osbourne Wrecker xvi. 254 Well, of course he can vamoose with the entire speculation, if he chooses. 1895J. G. Millais Breath fr. Veldt (1899) 175 The hunter was voted a fraud..and was..told to ‘vamoose’. 1936F. Clune Roaming round Darling ix. 82 The river was going downhill, and the country growing more and more similar in appearance to the Lachlan, before it vamoosed in the marshes. 1958‘J. Reeves’ Mulbridge Manor xii. 155 ‘See anyone?’ asked Winston. ‘Not a soul. Whoever it was has vamoosed.’
2. trans. To decamp or disappear from; to quit hurriedly. Freq. in phr. to vamoose the ranch. U.S.
1847‘M'C’ Let. 2 Apr. in Rough & Ready Ann. (1848) 245 On the morning after I wrote the letter to father..they..stacked their arms and colors, and ‘vamossed the ranch’. 1852Marryat Gold Quartz Mining 8 On the old Californian principle of ‘making a ‘pile’ and vamosing the ranche’. 1857in Thornton Amer. Gloss., Another pair of jail-birds have vamosed the log jail at Jacksonville. 1888E. Custer Tenting on Plains i. (1893) 32, I got that far when the eyes of the old galoots started out of their heads, and they vamoosed the ranche.
Hence vaˈmo(o)sing vbl. n.
1862J. R. Lowell Biglow Papers 2nd ser. v. 75 Or, when the vamosin' come, ever to find [etc.]. |